Netflix Announces Anime Series Based on Pacific Rim and Altered Carbon

Five anime series are in development at Netflix.

By Lucy O'Brien

Netflix has announced five new anime titles are in development, including series based on Pacific Rim and Altered Carbon.

Pacific Rim will expand upon Pacific Rim and Pacific Rim: Uprising, and focus on two siblings who pilot an abandoned Jaeger in an attempt to find their missing parents across a hostile, Kaiju-peppered landscape. Craig Kyle (Thor: Ragnarok) and Greg Johnson (X-Men: Evolution) will act as co-showrunners.

Altered Carbon is set in the same universe as Netflix's live-action series, which is receiving a second season. It will "explore new elements of the story mythology," is all Netflix has said about the anime series so far. It will be written by Dai Sato (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo) and Tsukasa Kondo.

Less prolific but still intriguing is Cagaster of an Insect Cage, based on a manga set in a post-apocalyptic world where the disease “Cagaster” turns people into giant murderous insects (directed by Full Metal Panic's Koichi Chigira), and Yasuke, set in a war-torn feudal Japan where a retired Ronin who must protect a mysterious child against dark forces (created by The Boondocks' LeSean Thomas).

Rounding out the five is Trese, based on the graphic novel of the same name and focused on a woman who goes head to head with a criminal supernatural underworld, set in an alternate Manila. Treses will be executive produced by The Legend of Korra's Jay Oliva.